DISCARDING OF VERTEX POINTS DURING TWO-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS RENDERING USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS HARDWARE - Patent 2366173

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EP 2 366 173 A2

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(88)	Date of publication A3:
	28.10.2010

(43)	Date of publication:
	21.09.2011 Bulletin 2011/38

(21)	Application number: 09799787.8

(22)	Date of filing: 07.12.2009

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International Patent Classification (IPC):

G06T 11/20^(2006.01)

(86)	International application number:
	PCT/US2009/067000

(87)	International publication number:
	WO 2010/077612 (08.07.2010 Gazette 2010/27)

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO SE SI SK SM TR

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Priority:

09.12.2008 US 331273

(71)	Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
	San Diego, California 92121 (US)

(72)	Inventors:
	BOURD, Alexei, V. San Diego, California 92121 (US) JIAO, Guofang San Diego, California 92121 (US) YUN, Jay, Chunsup San Diego, California 92121 (US)

(74)	Representative: Schmidbauer, Andreas Konrad
	Wagner & Geyer Gewürzmühlstrasse 5 80538 München 80538 München (DE)

(54)	DISCARDING OF VERTEX POINTS DURING TWO-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS RENDERING USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS HARDWARE